Mary Gordon Quotes

Mary Gordon
American Writer
Born: Dec 8, 1949
Could Father Life Me People You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things. Mary Gordon
You People Job Young Thinking Pension About Taking Idea Days Until Policy Foreign Years Years Ago Young People Plan Twenties Based Things Two
One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss. Mary Gordon
Relationship Cares Sexual Sexually Never Involved Genuinely Loss Anyone Should Guarantees
In my early life, I was a professional folk singer. I used to sing on the national television and radio in Canada. Nobody knows that - but now I've said it, haven't I? I'm strictly a shower singer at the minute. Mary Gordon
Life National Strictly Television Folk Folk Singer Minute Nobody Sing Singer Knows Said Canada National Television Used Shower Radio Professional Now Early Early Life
I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy. Mary Gordon
Success Be Happy Happy Would Would-Be Trade Any Children Mean
I could not write without my dog, Rhoda, a Lab-chow mix. Mary Gordon
Dog Could Write Without Mix
My mother really loved me. And one of the gifts that I have been given is that I have never thought for one second of my life that I was not greatly beloved. Mary Gordon
Life Me Mother Thought My Life Gifts Given Never Been Greatly Loved Really Second Beloved
My life is so much better than I thought it was going to be. Mary Gordon
Life Better Thought My Life Than Going Much
I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad. Mary Gordon
Sad People Sadness Will Think Coldness Rather Absolutely Writers Absolutely Not Particularly Chic Than Ironic Anything Acknowledge Among
It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction. Mary Gordon
Me Courage Women Writing School Group Gave Poetry Graduate Graduate School Move Fiction Actually Belonged
'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by dogma or canon law. That has nothing to do with me. I don't have a lot in common with other 'Catholic' writers. Mary Gordon
Me You Law Perspective Nothing Other Somehow Seems Writer Writers Like Catholic Dogma Were Lot Common Influenced Canon Agenda Choice Your
I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist. Mary Gordon
Life You Become Believe Moral Primary Motivation Artist Your
If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless. Mary Gordon
Good Mind Enterprises Bad Neither Moral Some Habit Pointless Stems Mainly Reader Styles Nor False Fiction Fictional Describe
My father's politics and ideas were, to me, unforgivable. He was a Jewish convert who became very anti-Semitic, and I didn't find the anti-Semitism forgivable. Mary Gordon
Politics Me Father Anti-Semitism Find He Ideas Became Were Anti-Semitic Very Convert Who Jewish

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